Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rocky Marciano sent courageous Don Cockell home to England on his shield, a blood-spattered technical knockout victim tonight in 54 seconds of the ninth round in the fifth defense of his world heavyweight title...
...Frank would take the carriage in for her without being asked." He went three nights a week to a nearby Police Athletic League center, designed to keep boys out of trouble. He liked to box, but he was small: 5 ft. 4 in., 126 Ibs. He hoped to be heavyweight champion of the world, and he wanted to be called Tarzan. Recently, he had been insulted by a member of the Golden Guineas gang; the murder was intended to avenge his honor...
...Slow and clumsy, and just about the only man in the house who did not know he was through as a fighter, former Heavyweight Champion Ezzard Charles stumbled around the ring in Miami for nine rounds before he finally dropped under the awkward flailing of a third-rate pug named John Holman...
...Carl ("Bobo") Olson (169 Ibs.), middleweight champion of the world, bounced the former Light-Heavyweight Champion Joey Maxim (175 Ibs.) off the canvas of San Francisco's Cow Palace and earned a unanimous decision. Long a competent boxer, Bobo likes to think that he has the heft and punch to rate a crack at Heavyweight Champion Rocky Marciano (187 Ibs.), may well have proved his point. ¶Less than a month after they whipped the Montreal Canadiens for the National Hockey League championship, Detroit's Red Wings took on Les Canadiens again for the Stanley Cup. Without their...
...bouts, they hunched in their seats, intent and silent as a TV audience. Contestants could be heard coaching their teammates from far back of the ringside: "Use your right, Joe. Keep jabbin'. For God's sake, jab." And when Idaho State's defending champion, Heavyweight Mike McMurtry, was belted glassy-eyed, a spectator's voice sounded clear above the hush: "That may be the best thing ever hit Mike. He's been thinking of turning pro. I hope this'll cure him." For even the fiercest collegiate fan likes to look on boxing...